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Summary: Integrating Design Tools for Building Design
ROBERT W. AMOR, LINDSAY J. GROVES and MIKE R. DONN
Department of Computer Science, School of Architecture
Victoria University of Wellington
Wellington, New Zealand
Abstract This paper examines the methods being devised at Victoria University to
provide an intelligent, knowledge based interface to expert systems, simulation
packages and CAD systems for architectural design. Currently a large amount of
information is duplicated in describing a building to different design tools. To enable
designers to use different design tools to evaluate a building design, without having to
duplicate so much of their effort, we propose a system that uses a common building
model to represent their knowledge of a building. On top of this building model we
provide an interfacing mechanism to move information between the different design
tools and the common building model.
KEYWORDS: Computer, Research, Systems (Knowledge based system, knowledge
representation, user interface, integrated design)
ABSTRACT
This paper examines methods being devised to provide an intelligent,
knowledge-based interface to expert systems, simulation packages, and CAD
systems for architectural design. Currently, a large amount of information is
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